Houston Haynes
Founder at Rower
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolHouston Haynes is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience designing intelligent distributed systems that span local-first architectures and cloud-native platforms. His career launched in embedded audio engineering and evolved into building AI-driven medical decision engines, global e-commerce and media streaming platforms, and cost-optimized data platforms for enterprises in healthcare, finance, and entertainment. Houston combines hands-on technical depth—across cloud providers, event-sourced and actor-modeled systems, and machine learning in high-security environments—with a track record of delivering measurable operational savings and performance gains. He also excels at organizational craft: recruiting, mentoring, and guiding cross-functional teams to ship complex, compliant solutions. As founder of SpeakEZ and managing partner at Rower, he blends product-level strategy with practical delivery, often staying “close to the work” while acting as a servant leader. Based in Asheville, NC, he brings a rare mix of audio-hardware roots, regulatory rigor, and pragmatic architecture to high-impact engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Audio Engineering, Bachelor of Science Audio Engineering at University of North Carolina Asheville
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
houstonhaynes/PortfolioSite
Jun 2019 - Nov 2021
My personal R blogdown static site that uses Hugo and Semantic UI
Contributions:1 release, 18 PRs, 129 pushes in 2 years 5 months
semantic-uihugostatic-siteblogdownmarkdown
speakez-llc/CollabGateway
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:12 PRs, 287 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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